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June 16, 2008

G73: Phillies 8, Red Sox 2

Colon (4-6-4-2-4, 70) had a rough start: ten pitches in, he was down 3-0, thanks to a Rollins dinger, Victorino's double and Howard's two-run dong.

Howard led off the third with another shot to deep left and Boston trailed 4-0. The Red Sox got two back in the fifth on back-to-back taters from Pedroia (who also singled and doubled) and Drew, but then Francona decided bringing Timlin in for the sixth inning would be a good idea.

He was wrong. Walk, single, sacrifice, single, single, fielder's choice, triple, walk. Four runs off Old Yeller allowed the Phillies to put the game on cruise control.

There was good news: Ortiz's cast is off and he may start range of motion exercises on Tuesday.

367 comments:

Speaking of injuries, the dumb Fox announcers were saying Saturday that Ortiz is "probably" out for the year. Do they know something, or are they typical dumb Fox announcers? They were freaking me out. Then on Sunday, the TBS announcers said Manny is "likely" out for a while.

The Fox announcers are just behind on their medical news. And morons, of course. The Orioles announcers also didn't have good information. I've atually HAD a torn tendon sheath--if the tendon itself isn't damaged and you are careful, it hurts, but it heals in about a month, and you are good as new.

The Wang injury, on the other hand (or foot) hits the Yankees where they are weakest. Unless the Yankees have another Aaron Small in the wings (no, I will never get over that), this could be the final brick in the wall.

If they hadn't started winning games recently, I would think so as well. As is, I have to wonder if they're not going to hang in there somehow and grab the WC again. Depressing prospect.

I suppose I should not abandon the RA/RS stuff I was posting a few days ago that hinted at a middling season at best for the Yankees, but it's hard to shake the notion that they could yet beat out the Jays and Rays.

I could be wrong, but Heidi strikes me as even less excusable than the previous NESN eye-candy. And most of the teams are doing this now. Is she really even a baseball fan? Is there any good reason for her other than to raise the blood pressure of nixon, et al.? It's sooooo blatant. For a while the Orioles acrually had a fat middle-aged former play-by-play man in this role, and it was refreshing. Now it appears to be an out-of-work swim-suit model.

The only bad part of vacation is missing our dogs! The older one already knows something's up, and she's waiting to see which kind of suitcases this is - the good kind where she comes along or the bad kind where we leave without her.

I usually feel sad as I walk out the door. But I always remember what a dog trainer once told me when we once boarded Cassie with her: once you are out of sight, the dog forgets, goes to sleep, eats, etc., until you return when they act like they missed you the whole time.